Re: [tlug] FTTH ISP recommendation

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Curt Sampson wrote:
> No. I have VDSL to the MDF (Main Distribution Frame--the telephone
> cabinet on the ground floor of the building where the telco demarcation
> point is), and it's fibre from there. (This is known as "Mansion
> fibre.")
>   

OK, I don't know anything about Mansion fiber except that a I have heard 
a number of people complain about it.  I had presumed they would give 
you an Ethernet connection from MDF.  I have a 30m[1] Ethernet cable 
connecting the modem to the router, so my setup isn't exactly ideal, but 
doesn't seem to present any issues.

> This VDSL is rather different from ADSL; it is the same speed in both
> directions, runs over much, much shorter distances, and should generally
> do 100 Mbps or something close to it.
>
> As I said, I saw the tests that the telco guy was doing during the
> install, and he was getting 70-80 Mbps to something on the other side of
> that modem.
>   

Was the telco guy connecting from the MDF or your VDSL end to getting 
70-80 Mbps?  With B-Flets you can connect to the Flets Square[2]? 
without an ISP which will allow you to just test the line speed.

> I wonder if whatever is multiplexing the VDSL connections over the
> mansion fibre is the problem here.
>   

That sounds likely.

Edward

1. I had to go through the air conditioning vent at the back of the 
property because the owner wouldn't allow any holes.
2. It might be called something slightly different, I don't remember but 
it shouldn't be too hard to find.